9.25.2012

V&A Africa

This fall the V & A will revisit its African collection, inviting the public to see some textiles, jewelery, and sculpture never before displayed in the galleries. The exhibition, V&A Africa: Exploring Hidden Histories, opens November 15. (Over the past 150 or so years, the Museum's perceptions of African design have evolved, so the show will look at shifts in attitude as well as the objects themselves) Combing through the online collections, I spied quite a few 19th-century African pieces that today would fit right in at Calypso.